Kelvin's RU, JP, ESP log <- In this order
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:24 am
This is the link to my previous log.
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?t=14194
After the judgment date (Spanish exam), I decided to embark on the journey to study Japanese (which I have already been doing for almost 1 year). It means that I am now doing whatever I was doing with Spanish for Japanese. In the meantime, I am maintaining my Spanish and with a hope that 2 or 3 years later I can reach C level. I also decided to take up a challenge to push my English to C2 level.
Japanese
My plan is to push my Japanese to N2 level with the following route:
- Now to 6 December: Genki II + N4 vocabulary list
I am now doing Genki II and now at Chapter 22. I also do bidirectional translation (from Japanese to Cantonese) of the dialogues of each chapter. I also have a N4 vocabulary book for working on the vocabularies for N4 before I move onto Tobira. Now I am using 2 Anki decks:
(a) Genki dialogue translation deck
(b) vocabulary deck (importing basically everything from the N4 vocabulary book)
- Next Phase: Tobira (to N3 level)
I have bought the whole set of Tobira and I think I need to find 1 day to draw up a study plan. My preliminary idea is to create 2 decks:
(a) Grammar sentence translation deck - there are quite a lot of sample sentence containing new grammar items. I will create L1 to L2 cards for these sentences
(b) Vocabulary deck - I just add the vocab list into
I won't do translation of the text because it's just too long to be ankified. But I think I need a revision schedule of the text.
- Next Next Phase: Native material + appropriate textbook (for filling the gaps)
Depends on my progress, I hope to hammer my Japanese to N2 by mid 2021. Language learning in the end is the acquisition of language but not the knowledge encapsulated by the language. I am a big fan of popular science books / fiction written by Japanese authors.
I have set N2 as my target for reading and listening as I was told that this is the level where I can comfortably enjoy Japanese native materials. This has been a "unfulfilled dream" of mine as a big fan of Japanese culture. An intensive studying of Japanese also implies that I can once again indulge in watching anime, series, movies, variety shows and other TV informative shows under the pretext of "language learning".
Fun fact: In Hong Kong, Japanese is the most learned foreign language (English is official language).
New update: Due to the pandemic, the N4 exam is once again cancelled. So I will finish 2 N4 mock papers and move on to Tobira
I will talk about my Spanish maintenance and English plan in a moment.
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?t=14194
After the judgment date (Spanish exam), I decided to embark on the journey to study Japanese (which I have already been doing for almost 1 year). It means that I am now doing whatever I was doing with Spanish for Japanese. In the meantime, I am maintaining my Spanish and with a hope that 2 or 3 years later I can reach C level. I also decided to take up a challenge to push my English to C2 level.
Japanese
My plan is to push my Japanese to N2 level with the following route:
- Now to 6 December: Genki II + N4 vocabulary list
I am now doing Genki II and now at Chapter 22. I also do bidirectional translation (from Japanese to Cantonese) of the dialogues of each chapter. I also have a N4 vocabulary book for working on the vocabularies for N4 before I move onto Tobira. Now I am using 2 Anki decks:
(a) Genki dialogue translation deck
(b) vocabulary deck (importing basically everything from the N4 vocabulary book)
- Next Phase: Tobira (to N3 level)
I have bought the whole set of Tobira and I think I need to find 1 day to draw up a study plan. My preliminary idea is to create 2 decks:
(a) Grammar sentence translation deck - there are quite a lot of sample sentence containing new grammar items. I will create L1 to L2 cards for these sentences
(b) Vocabulary deck - I just add the vocab list into
I won't do translation of the text because it's just too long to be ankified. But I think I need a revision schedule of the text.
- Next Next Phase: Native material + appropriate textbook (for filling the gaps)
Depends on my progress, I hope to hammer my Japanese to N2 by mid 2021. Language learning in the end is the acquisition of language but not the knowledge encapsulated by the language. I am a big fan of popular science books / fiction written by Japanese authors.
I have set N2 as my target for reading and listening as I was told that this is the level where I can comfortably enjoy Japanese native materials. This has been a "unfulfilled dream" of mine as a big fan of Japanese culture. An intensive studying of Japanese also implies that I can once again indulge in watching anime, series, movies, variety shows and other TV informative shows under the pretext of "language learning".
Fun fact: In Hong Kong, Japanese is the most learned foreign language (English is official language).
New update: Due to the pandemic, the N4 exam is once again cancelled. So I will finish 2 N4 mock papers and move on to Tobira
I will talk about my Spanish maintenance and English plan in a moment.